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About Knut Eidem
- Knut Eidem (24 December 1918 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. He was a brother of Odd Eidem.
- While a student at the University of Oslo, Knut Eidem was among those rounded up following the 1943 University of Oslo fire, arrested and sent to Sennheim concentration camp.
- He remained incarcerated here until the camp was liberated.
- As a writer he published a book about the fire, Aulaen brenner (1980), and also the commercial success Rui-jentene som kom til Kongen (1974), then Se deg i speilet (1975), Før vi vandrer (1981) and Cato (1983, about Cato Zahl Pedersen).
- His journalist career was spent in Dagbladet from 1950 to 1990.
- He died in January 2009.
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